#entice

Gundar isn't so much a ship's captain as a reformed pirate and a heathen." [Evanlyn] looked apologetically at Gundar. "No offense, Gundar." The skirl shrugged cheerfully. "None taken, little lady. It's a pretty fair description. Not sure about the reformed part," he added thoughtfully. ↗

— John Flanagan

#skandians #description

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#entice #filing #great #great writer #his

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#go #poets #through #tough #use

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#does #hear #hears #lives #master

We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#apprenticeship #because #better #feel #glad

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester. ↗

— John Thaw

#baker #couple #did #fruit #i

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#apprenticeship #butter #end #everything #forth

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#age #any #apprenticeship #chef #go

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#apprenticeship #enough #kind #marvelous #period

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #greatest #had #men #serve